Hivanson Week 1

Hailey Ivanson 1 LMU Drive Chemistry Department | Hivanson at lion.lmu dot edu

Education

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA | AUGUST 2021, EXPECTED GRADUATION MAY 2024

• Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry
• Awards: Presidential Scholarship, Dean’s List, Most Outstanding Student in General Chemistry
• Relevant upper division courses: Biochemistry + Lab; Advanced Biochemistry + Lab; Materials Chemistry; Plants, Pharmacy, and Medicine; Epidemiology; Physical Chemistry + Lab
• Member of Loyola Marymount University Honors Program and Beta Beta Beta Biology Honors Society
• Represented LMU at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Honors Conference (2022, 2023)

Career interests

• Goal is to become an M.D.

Research

David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA | SEPTEMBER 2022 - PRESENT

Research Assistant, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine under Dr. Cecilia Canales, MD, MPH

• Conduct cutting-edge research in anesthesiology & perioperative medicine by organizing and undertaking research studies, including data analysis, report writing, and presentation.
• Presented at UCLA’s Dep’t of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine 15th Annual Scientific Evening.
• First-author publication in Current Anesthesiology Reports: “The Ethics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Perioperative Medicine: Is Unregulated AI Already at the Bedside?” (August 2023)

Loyola Marymount University

RAINS Research Fellow under Tatiana Kuzmenko | MAY 2022 - JUNE 2022

• Prepared plant extracts of 7 medicinal plants used by the Chumash tribe in California and ran biological tests in order to determine these plants’ medicinal properties.
• Presented at Loyola Marymount University’s Undergraduate Research Symposium in March 2023.

RAINS Research Assistant, Biochemistry under Dr. Sarah Mitchell | JANUARY 2023 - PRESENT

• Study IMPDH mutations in yeast to determine their effects on RNA binding. Study entitled "Investigation of Disease-Causing Mutations on the mRNA Binding Activity of IMPDH"

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